EPISODE · Jun 28, 2022 · 3 MIN
Cockroaches by Scholastique Mukasonga
from Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Memoirs · host Francesco Hartmann
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627199 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cockroaches Author: Scholastique Mukasonga Narrator: Akrosia Samson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 21 minutes Release date: June 28, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Imagine being born into a world where everything about you—the shape of your nose, the look of your hair, the place of your birth—designates you as an undesirable, an inferior, a menace, no better than a cockroach, something to be driven away and ultimately exterminated. Imagine being thousands of miles away while your family and friends are brutally and methodically slaughtered. Imagine being entrusted by your parents with the mission of leaving everything you know and finding some way to survive, in the name of your family and your people. Scholastique Mukasonga’s Cockroaches is the story of growing up a Tutsi in Hutu-dominated Rwanda—the story of a happy child, a loving family, all wiped out in the genocide of 1994. A vivid, bittersweet depiction of family life and bond in a time of immense hardship, it is also a story of incredible endurance and the duty to remember that loss and those lost while somehow carrying on. Sweet, funny, wrenching, and deeply moving, Cockroaches is a window into an unforgettable world of love, grief, and horror.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627199 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cockroaches Author: Scholastique Mukasonga Narrator: Akrosia Samson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 21 minutes Release date: June 28, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Imagine being born into a world where everything about you—the shape of your nose, the look of your hair, the place of your birth—designates you as an undesirable, an inferior, a menace, no better than a cockroach, something to be driven away and ultimately exterminated. Imagine being thousands of miles away while your family and friends are brutally and methodically slaughtered. Imagine being entrusted by your parents with the mission of leaving everything you know and finding some way to survive, in the name of your family and your people. Scholastique Mukasonga’s Cockroaches is the story of growing up a Tutsi in Hutu-dominated Rwanda—the story of a happy child, a loving family, all wiped out in the genocide of 1994. A vivid, bittersweet depiction of family life and bond in a time of immense hardship, it is also a story of incredible endurance and the duty to remember that loss and those lost while somehow carrying on. Sweet, funny, wrenching, and deeply moving, Cockroaches is a window into an unforgettable world of love, grief, and horror.
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